In Praise of Polytheism (Hardcover, 1st)

Contents

Introduction: The Gods in Exile

1. Sacrificing the Nativity Scene and Bombing the Mosque

2. Festivity Figurines: Animals, Shepherds, Three Kings

3. End of the Year Figurines: Sigilla, Sigillaria, and Compitalia

4. A Life Through Figurines: The Lararium

5. Thou Shalt Have No Other God Before Me

6. Translating the Gods, Translating God

7. Grammatical Paradoxes: The Name of God

8. The Interpretatio of the Gods

9. Polytheism, Curiosity, and Knowledge

10. What If Monotheisms Were Just Polytheisms in Disguise?

11. Tolerance vs. Interpretatio

12. Polytheism as Language

13. Giving Citizenship to the Gods

14. The Long Shadow of Words

15. The Twilight of Writing, the Sunset of Scripture

Appendix A. Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in the Ancient World
Appendix B. The Ups and Downs of Paganus 

Notes
Bibliography